Leon Promet wrote:

Hi Paul,

What do you or any of your readers know about Burnelli Aircraft? Thought
your guys might be interested!  I've been a plane nut ever since I could
make motor noises,  and I only came across them by accident less than 12
months ago.

http://www.hit.fi/~vzvirbly/burnelli/links.htm

While you are there,  visit John Wagner's Tesla site and see how the
illustrious Smithsonian suppresses the truth!  Bet most people thing Edison
invented the 3 phase AC electricity transmission system,  and Marconi
invented Radio!  "In yer dreams!!"  Tesla did!!

 and

www.aircrash.org  which is the main parent site,  but it's a somewhat
different website to the one above.

Enjoy!

Leon Promet

As Vance recently pointed out it is nearly impossible to build a light
weight pressure vessel that looks like a Burnelli fuselage.

Structurally efficient pressure vessel tends to look like a sphere or
a tube.

Also, low aspect ratio lifting bodies have high induced drag if
in fact they indeed reach a high enough angle of attack to generate appreciable 
lift. If they don't they merely have excess skin friction drag due to an 
unfavorable  surface area to volume ratio. In short the Burnelli flies
in the face of aerodynamic and structural principle :-)

I am sure/or hope we will hear from Vance again 
with one of his very witty dissertations on this subject :-)

Paul Lamar
 
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